I couldn’t disagree with him, his comments, that he should have gotten the ball a little bit more.
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“Zeke has always been an extremely loyal person, a great competitor”, Meyer said.
“Honestly, this is my last game in the Shoe”, Elliott said following the loss to the Spartans. “Most selfless player – one of the most selfless players I’ve ever coached and been around”.
“Our downhill run game with tempo is something we’re good at, but it’s not something you can do all the time”, he said. We’ve just been hit right in the gut, and Zeek actually said a few words down there, and I love these guys and we’ll come back and do the best we can next week. I could have told you a month ago that that was going to be my last game in the Shoe as you can see I was very emotional before the game. After the game Elliott took to Twitter to vent his frustrations. “We can’t have any other response because if we don’t then we’re just a phony team”. “I’m disappointed in the play calling, I’m disappointed in the situations we were put in, and I wish it all played out differently”. After getting the ball on a turnover at the MI State 32 in the second quarter, the Buckeyes needed 10 plays to score, with Elliott going in from the 1 on the last of his eight carries on the drive.
The Buckeyes need to beat MI and have MI State lose to Penn State to play for the Big Ten title and perhaps work their way back into the College Football Playoff.
Or OSU’s Terry Glenn saying, “Michigan is nothing”, in 1995.
“They’re big and physical and long on the defensive line”.
As you might expect, OH and MI topped the local ratings with Columbus (42.0), Dayton (30.7), Cleveland (28.5), Detroit (26.0), and Cincinnati (17.9) making up the Top 5.
But the rivalry still burns brightly. MI State can win the Big Ten East if it defeats Penn State on Saturday. In fact, the coach said he agreed with Elliott’s critique. Rock star coach against rock star coach.
He also noted it was the inappropriate time to say that he would not return to school next fall.
Harbaugh has also changed the direction of MI football immediately.
Even with so much on the line for both teams, the pressure is definitely on the Buckeyes.
The highly anticipated Top 10 showdown between undefeated, defending national champion Ohio State and burgeoning rival MI State was an old fashioned Big Ten slobberknocker.
Meyer said he is “not surprised” how well Harbaugh has started. “You think about (Cook’s) win-loss record and the success he’s had, and I think that’s why it’s so impressive they were able to pull off the win last week with quarterbacks that have not played a whole lot for them”. They are well coached. “It’s just said and done and we haven’t really talked about it at all”.
He explains that OH approached the game against State on solid footing.
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MI still has a chance to win the division and head to the Big Ten championship game.
